March 1972 Issue [The Easy Chair] Georgia Download PDF Adjust Share Mother of social invention by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Economic conditions Georgia Social change More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share